A print hides 46 years, surfaces the month the market wants it. Hm
Let's walk the timeline, slowly, the way nobody else will. 1980: a print of a swimming pool is placed inside a book about swimming pools. Camouflage? You said it, not us. The book then vanishes into private hands for 45 years — no record, no sightings, nothing. A YEAR ago it surfaces, donated anonymously over a counter in Norwich.
And then it waits. On an open shelf. Unexamined. Until — weeks after the artist's death, precisely when signed Hockneys reprice — a volunteer 'decides to thumb through it'. Decides. We're not questioning Jemma, Jemma is clearly the only person in this story doing honest work. We're asking who donated a £41,000 object with the timing of a market order.
The buyer? 'Anonymous.' The sale venue? eBay, where the bidding history is — go look for yourself. We did. We took notes. The notes are in the members' area.
Forty-six years is also, incidentally, how long it takes certain things to declassify. Check YOUR books. Check the middle pages especially. They never hide things at the front. Wake up.